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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia revokes sole acquittal of Crimean Tatar civic journalist and political prisoner

A Russian appeal court has revoked the sole acquittal of a Crimean political prisoner and upheld horrific sentences against seven other Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists

Russia targets entire families in its savage persecution of Crimean Tatars

All of the men in Fatma Ismailova’s family - her husband, Rustem Ismailov, her father Enver Omerov and brother Riza Omerov - have been sentenced, without any recognizable crime, to horrific sentences

Russia passes 19-year sentences against Crimean Tatar journalist and activists for defending human rights

A Russian court has sentenced journalist Remzi Bekirov and human rights activist Riza Izetov to 19 years’ imprisonment, with three other Crimean Tatar civic activists receiving only slightly shorter sentences.

Families and lawyers prevented from attending Russia’s reprisal sentencing of Crimean Tatar journalist and civic activists

Russian officials have illegally prevented lawyers and the families of journalist Remzi Bekirov and four other Crimean Tatar political prisoners from travelling to Rostov in Russia for the verdict in the men’s ‘trial’. 

Crimean Tatar disappears after Russia accuses him of ‘treason’ for Ukraine

Emil Emirov has not been seen since he was taken away, on 4 March, by the Russian FSB who claimed to suspect the Deputy Head of the Bakhchysarai branch of Crimean Telecom of ‘treason’ and ‘working for Ukraine’s Security Service'

Russia continues its first machine for destroying Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian families

While intensively bombing and killing Ukrainians, Russia is still finding time for the repression it has inflicted on those parts of Ukraine seized after its first invasion eight years ago.

Crimean Tatar Reshat Ametov, first savagely tortured victim of Russia’s war against Ukraine

If the bombing of Ukrainian cities by Russian invading forces is unprecedented, not so Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which began eight years ago

Russia claims it prevented a ‘Ukrainian radical terrorist attack’ in occupied Crimea

Amid all of the extraordinarily sloppy fakes with which Russia is fabricating a ‘casus belli’, this stands out as there very likely are six Ukrainians being tortured now